Smartypants WINNERS!

1. What African country borders Botswana, South Africa, Zambia and Angola?

ANSWER: Namibia

2. This 1920’s Nobel laureate from Denmark was best known for his contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics.

ANSWER: Niels Bohr

3. Name the Renaissance novelist, poet and playwright from Spain who was known for his influence upon the Spanish language, and was also known as El Príncipe de los Ingenios, or “The Prince of Wits”.

ANSWER: Miguel de Cervantes

4. Which poetic meter has fives sets of stressed and unstressed syllables? (i.e. an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable, 5 times)

ANSWER: Iambic Pentameter

5. Who is the only athlete to have played in both a Superbowl and a World Series?

a. Jim Thorpe
b. Bo Jackson
c. Babe Ruth
d. Deion Sanders

ANSWER: d. Deion Sanders

6. Assume that water lilies double in area every 24 hours. In the spring, there is one water lily on a lake. After thirty days, the lake is completely (100%) covered with water lilies. How many days did it take for lilies to cover 25% of the lake?

ANSWER: 28 days

7. This principal ballerina in the New York City ballet performed the role of Clara opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov in the American Ballet Theater’s 1977 televised production of The Nutcracker.

ANSWER: Gelsey Kirkland

8. Which of the following countries was NOT a part of the former nation of Yugoslavia?

a. Albania
b. Slovenia
c. Macedonia
d. Montenegro

ANSWER: a. Albania

9. If you pour 500,000 cubic centimeters of water in a barrel that was already holding 300 liters of water, how much total water would be in the barrel?

10. Name the two Confederate Generals from the American Civil War who were featured on a 1937 U. S Army issue 4-cent postage stamp.

ANSWER: Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

11. What is the name of this sculpture?

ANSWER: The Thinker or Le Penseur

12. What red-headed actress appeared in both the movie Bachelor Party and a Whitesnake music video?

ANSWER: Tawny Kitaen

13. Name the only two southern (confederate) state capitals that were not occupied by northern troops during the American Civil War.

ANSWER: Austin and Tallahassee

14. What is the lowest elevation in Nepal?

a. 3150 meters
b. 1050 meters
c. 350 meters
d. 70 meters

ANSWER: d. 70 meters

15. Identify the Australian winner of the Fields Medal (for mathematics) who, as a child prodigy, scored a 760 on the math section of the SAT exam at the age of 8, and later earned his PhD from Princeton University at the age of 20.

ANSWER: Terence Tao

16. Name the U2 song that contains the lyrics “Under a blood red sky a crowd has gathered in black and white”

ANSWER: New Year’s Day

17. What author is thought to have coined the phrases “love is blind”, “all that glitters is not gold”, and “wild goose chase”?

ANSWER: Shakespeare

18. How many of the crew aboard the Titanic were women?

ANSWER: As it turns out this answer varies from 18 to 24, so I’m accepting anything in that range. Sorry about the question!

19. Which of the following is the correct trio of the ABC islands in the Caribbean?

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That was so much fun! Thank you, Ree! I’m just thrilled I got all the answers correct!

Bridget in Minnesota

I am happy to have all the right answers, even if I didn’t win. Thank you for the fun! Congratulations, winners!

Rachel P

Would like to know how you came up with the answer for number six.

RachelRose

Thanks for the fun, Ree! I really appreciate these quizzes where speed isn’t the only way to win!

Sarah

Rachel, for #6, work backwards instead – if it’s 100% at 30 days, then it was 50% at 29 days, and 25% at 28 days. 🙂 much harder to work from the beginning!

Thanks for the quiz, Ree!

Mana_V

I always enjoy the smartypants quizzes…i would love to see more of them 🙂

(Incidentally, if Betsy traveled DIRECTLY southwest from town C, she would NOT make it back to town A)

http://www.halfstepfromcrazy.com Chelsea

I can’t believe I even made the first 25! So close… That was a tough quiz!

Julia

The amount doubles every day, and on day 30 it was 100%. That means on day 29 it was 50%, and day 28 it was 25%.

Susan

Just curious….why not?

lora

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I had fun doing it! I had a Tupperware party to do last night, so I couldn’t do it then, but my husband and I had fun doing it this morning!!

Susan

Fun quiz. Got all the right answers…just wasn’t fast enough. Just curious….how many folks submitted all the correct answers? And how would we know where we stood in the speed part. Was I number 40 or number 400??

http://www.essentialdelightsmakeup.com Penny

The math was hard but the quiz was a challenge and fun. I knew I had some of the math questions wrong and had to go back this morning and try to figure them out. Next time I’ll have the kids help me out!
Thanks for doing this Ree, it must be a huge amount of work. Congtrats to the winners!

http://www.essentialdelightsmakeup.com Penny

Oh that’s how you do it! I had an awful time with this question, ….Thanks Julia!

Sue Francis

Am stumped on question 20…tell me please how you came up with answer:)?

http://www.suzysgoodies.com Suzy

How happy was I to see question #&?!?!?!? Who else besides me watches the Mikhail Baryshnikov “Nutcracker” every Christmas??? Mmmmmm…Misha in tights…

Deedee

That was an awesome quiz!! Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to stretch my brain and test my google skills! And my math skills. (I actually set up an excel spreadsheet to figure out the lily pad question!) (and I got that one right.)

I did actually miss one question, and I’m sure I was nowhere near the first 25 (not even sure if my answers were entered as I cannot find my comment at all). But for me it was just for the challenge. So much fun. And I look forward to the next one.

Oh…one more thing – I think that was very fair how you set up the rules for winning this time! And a big congratulations to the winners as well as everyone who got all the answers correct!

stella h

Congrats Wieners!!!
I actually only missed 1 this time – the stamp question – I’m a little proud of myself.

Synthia

A squared + B squared = C squared. Pythagorean theorum

Sue Francis

Thanks! A little beyond my capabilities…I’ve always hated Math!

http://bonnieseehowsheruns.blogspot.com bonnie

congrats winners! those were some good questions!

Rachel P

Thanks!

NG in NH

Oh, I finally got all the answers correct on one of your quizzes — and without my hubby’s help! (Even though it took me over an hour, and lots of agonizing on a few of them.)
Congrats to the official (and lucky) smartypants winners, and I hope you do more of these soon!

http://www.mook8e.blogspot.com katie

This was fun. Good job winners! I just want you to know…this quiz was harder than the GRE, which I studied for MONTHS for! I can’t wait for the next one 😀

http://www.mook8e.blogspot.com katie

I had to actually break out a calculator for that one. Julia was much more logical about it. LOL